Trap.



D. H. GLIPPINGER.

TRAP.

APPLIOATION FILED JULY 31, 1911.

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speaeeeaea er meeneemt application mea any si, ien. serial no. estesa To all whom t may concern Be it known that l, Devin H. a citizen of the United States, residing at Perkins, inthe county4 of Sacramento, State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tra s; and l do declare the following to be a ful clear,'and such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawin and to the characters of reference form a part of this application.

rlhis invention relates to improvements in traps and particularly to mouse or rat traps, the object of the invention beingv to produce a simple and absolutely reliable trap which will be so constructed as to allure the rodents without any tendency whatsoever to alarm them.

A further object of the invention is to produce a simple and inexpensive device, and yet one which will be exceedingly effective for the purposes for which it is designed. f

rlhese objects l accomplishby means of such structure and relative arrangement of parts as will fully appear by a perusal of the following specification and claim.

ln the drawings similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts 1n the several views. j

Figure 1 is `a top plan view of the complete trap. l1`ig..2 1s a sectional view of the same taken on a line :rf-w of Fig. 1. v

Referring now more particularly to the characters of reference on the drawings, l iirst provide a platform member 1 held upward by side flanges or edges 2. Said latform 1 is provided with an opening 3 o any suitable shape, while 4 is a plate adapted to t in said opening ush with the platform 1 and having projectin arms 5 mounted on pins 6 in lugs l on the platform 1, such arms 5 having stops 8 to the plate 4 fl the trap is set.A v

'llhe numeral 9 designates the s of the trap which catchesthe re ents,

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late, pins in said h with the platform 1 whensame being suitably hinged on the platform 1 and actuated by any suitable spring structure 10.

'llhe numeral 11 designates a holding pin which is hinged to the platform 1 at 12 and projects over the member 9.when the trap is set and has an end hook 13 which its under a lug la on an'up'wardly projecting trigger member l5 on the plat/e d which normally holds the trap in operative position. The plate Ll is provided with a bait cup 16 having a pin 17 on which the bait may be fastened. y y

lln practice the plate 4l being ush with the platform 1 does not tend to alarm the rodent and in searching for the bait held by the. cup 16' he steps u on said platform, which operating on its inged pin e causes the lug 1a to be disengaged from the hoch 13 and the force of the spring 10A thus throws the member 9 over on to the rodent and catches him in the trap.

From the foregoing description it will be readily seenthat l have produced such a device as substantially fulfils the object of the invention as 'set forth herein.

While this specification sets forth in detail the present and preferred construction of the device, still in practice such deviations from. such detail may be resorted to as do not form a departure from the spirit of the invention. v

Having thus described my invention what l claim as new and useful `and desire to secure by Letters Fatent is A trap comprising the combination of a platform a supporting flange disposed all around the outer under edge of said platform, said platform being provided with an openinrr cut in its to surface, a late normally tting into sai opening an bein normallyvfiush with the top surface of said platform, projecting p arms on said A arms, lugs on said platform spaced apart, said pins being turnable in said lugs, projecting s top members on said arms projecting back of said lugs and adapted to engage the top surface of said latform to maintain said plate normally hush with the top of said platform, a cup in raeeaeeaaaiyaiere.

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